The purpose of using this platform was to have a hybrid cloud environment where students or users could access the services of a private cloud and also bypass its limitations. The private cloud could only offer services up to a certain extent due to reasons such as the cost of infrastructure, unavailability of services, or the need for physical expansion. 

With this platform, users could migrate to the cloud on the go and use public cloud services like Oracle database while integrating with their own local storage. This helped to reduce costs and make it affordable for students in Pakistan to access IT education and improve their skills and technologies.

We had to integrate the technology with the existing education system, and there was a huge gap. To address this issue, we collectively created a cloud for all universities in Pakistan that would provision them with equal opportunity at much lesser cost. The cost was a huge issue, and we needed to get everything that any top-of-the-line, previously existing legacy Cloud could offer. To create services much better than the legacy solution as it is state-of-the-art and provides more than what legacy can offer. VMware provides Cloud Director, but it is too costly, and I don't think any of the 300 universities in Pakistan can afford such a private cloud individually.

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